Donor Privacy Policy

Updated


April 27,2023

Welcome!

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation is an independent, non-profit media organization for university-government-public collaboration. We are committed to building a knowledge society in Africa; a society where the production, diffusion, and utilization of the knowledge are significant economic, cultural, political, and social activities. The organization is a fully established, non-incorporated, non-partisan, not for profit organization and it is affiliated with South African Department of Social Development with a registration number 039-283-NPO .

This website, which is accessible at https://www.mopresident.org ("this website", “the website”, “the site”, “mopresident.org”), is made available by Good Morning Mr. President Foundation, ("the owner").

The Foundation has put together this policy in place to protect the privacy rights of our donors. We recognize that our donors care deeply about how their personal information is used and shared, and we value the privacy and security of our donors. This Donor Privacy Policy addresses our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing Donor Information. Please carefully read this policy together with Terms of Use. We will never sell, trade, or rent your nonpublic personal information.


1. Important Information

Information You Provide to Us

By donating to Good Morning Mr. President Foundation , you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information in or to the Republic of South Africa ("SA"), and other countries that may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, for the purposes stated in this policy.

If you do not agree with the terms of the Donor Privacy Policy and Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Terms of Use, please immediately discontinue use of Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services (as defined below).


2. Definitions

When we say… … we mean.
“Good Morning Mr. President”/ “Good Morning Mr. President Foundation”/ “the foundation” / “mopresident” / “we” /”us” /”our” Good Morning Mr. President, the foundation that operates mopresident.org website.
“you” / “your” / “me” You, regardless of whether you are an individual, group, or organization, and regardless of whether you are using the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation platform or our services on behalf of yourself or someone.
“this Policy” / “this Privacy Policy” / Donor Privacy Policy This document, entitled “Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Donor Policy”.
"Personal information" "Personal information" is information you provide us or information we collect from you through the Fundraising Services that identifies or could be used to identify you. We collect some or all of the following types of personal information from you through your use of Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services: your name, contact details (such as address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID), financial information (such as bank account number), device details (such as IP address, web browser user-agent information), demographic details (such as gender or age) and information about your interests and affiliations.
“Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services” “Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services” is a foundation fundraising page, https://www.mopresident.org/donate .

3. What This Policy Covers

This Donor Privacy Policy covers the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of personal and non-personal information collected from you during the process of making a donation to Good Morning Mr. President Foundation and through your interactions with Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services (“Donor Information”).


4. What Information We Collect

As a result of your interaction with our donation page, making a donation, participating in a donor survey or providing feedback related to donating, or otherwise using Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services, Good Morning Mr. President Foundation may collect certain personal information, as described above.

We also may collect some non-personal information, such as:

  • the web page or application that referred you to our donation pages
  • the amount you donated
  • which of our pages you request and visit
  • the date and time of each request you make to our donation pages
  • comments and suggestions from you
  • correspondence between you and Good Morning Mr. President/Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Platform
  • any other information you provide to us

We keep both personal and non-personal Donor Information confidential, meaning that we will not share this information outside of the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation except as permitted by this policy or in de-identified/anonymized form.


5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

As you interact with Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services, we may use automatic data collection and other locally stored data technologies such as tracking pixels, JavaScript, cookies, and local storage to collect certain information about your device.

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Platform uses cookies and other locally stored data to enhance your donation experience. We also use this information to create a safer online environment and gain a better understanding of donor preferences and interactions with Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services.

In general, cookies and other locally stored data are used to:

  • Help Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services function and deliver new and relevant content to you.
  • Provide you with a personalized experience by storing your preferences so that they can be used the next time you visit Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services.
  • Analyze the performance of donation processes so that we can better understand how they work and improve them for you and other Good Morning Mr. President Foundation donors.
  • Analyze interactions with fundraising emails so we can refine and improve the donation process.

6. Limiting Data Collection by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We believe that the collection of this data helps improve your donation experience; however, you may remove or disable some or all cookies through your browser settings.

While not a comprehensive list, you can limit the use of cookies and other locally stored data on your device by:

  • Removing or disabling specific locally stored data on your browser's settings.
  • Using a browser that can block-third party cookies.
  • Installing a plugin to block locally stored data, if available.

Although donations to Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Platform via Fundraising Services are possible without cookies and other locally stored data, please note that the removal or disabling of these features may affect your navigation of these sites and the personalization of your experience.


7. Do Not Track

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation is committed to protecting the information we collect from all of our donors. We do not share this information with third parties, except in the specific circumstances described in the "Sharing Donor Information" section of this policy. We do not change our behavior in response to a web browser's Do Not Track signal; instead, we provide the same level of protection to information we collect from all donors by default.


8. How We Use Donor Information

We use information collected from you for general administrative purposes and to operate our fundraising processes.

This includes:

  • administering the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Services;
  • updating you about upcoming fundraising and other Good Morning Mr. President Foundation activities;
  • thanking you for your donation; and
  • setting language preferences.
  • We engage in the foregoing activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and for our legitimate interests in managing Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services.

We also use information collected from you to comply with various obligations relating to recordkeeping and reporting.

This includes:

  • distributing donation receipts;
  • maintaining our internal records test features;
  • complying with South African tax requirements;
  • reporting to applicable government agencies as required by law; and
  • communicating substantive changes to this policy and related policies.

We engage in the foregoing activities to comply with our legal obligations and for our legitimate interests in managing our donation processes.

And we use information collected from you to improve and update Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services.

This includes:

  • customizing content;
  • understanding donors' interest in Knowledge Disrupt;
  • improving our fundraising processes and efforts;
  • conducting internal analyses, such as research and analytics;
  • providing greater security; and
  • conducting survey and metric reports.

We engage in the foregoing activities for our legitimate interests such as improving and protecting our fundraising processes and efforts.


9. Accessing Your Donor Information

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation works hard to accurately process and maintain Donor Information. If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete the personal information we have about you, object to our processing of such personal information, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another organization (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), please let us know by contacting us at [email protected].

While we will make reasonable efforts to comply with your request, there are certain situations where we may not grant your request (such as when we cannot adequately verify your identity to give you access to personal information, when we are legally required to retain information, or when we are not technologically able to change or delete information). Therefore, the granting of such requests remains at the discretion of Good Morning Mr. President Foundation.

All emails sent relating to Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services (with the exception of receipts or administrative notices) include an easy option to unsubscribe. If you would like to change your communication preferences, you (or an authorized representative) can let us know by contacting us at [email protected] at any time, or clicking the unsubscribe link in an email you receive from us.


10. Sharing Donor Information

We understand that donors may wish to remain anonymous, and we strive to honor such requests and preserve your anonymity. However, in limited circumstances, we may share Donor Information in the situations and under the conditions described below. We will never sell, trade, or rent your nonpublic personal information.

With your permission. With your consent, we may share your information for a particular purpose. For example, we may give donors the option to have their name publicly associated with their donation.

In anonymized form. We may publish or share anonymized Donor Information. For example, we may share anonymized data sets to show donation trends.

Comments and suggestions. We may publish any comments or suggestions that donors provide us, including in promotional materials, in anonymous form. In the rare instance that we do publish such information with donor attribution, we will do so only with your written consent.

Online payment processors. In order to facilitate online donations, we have partnered with payment processors. When you make a donation to Good Morning Mr. President Foundation through Fundraising Services, whether by credit card, debit card, or other methods of online payment, you transmit your payment data directly to the payment processor. We do our best to use contractual agreements and other mechanisms to help ensure that these processors maintain the confidentiality of your information. However, please be aware that Good Morning Mr. President Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of these processors; please consult the privacy policies of the applicable payment processor for more information about its practices.

Other service providers. We use third-party service providers or contractors who assist with the organization and facilitation of Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services, or who help run our donation pages or improve your experience with them. We may give access to your personal or non-personal information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. While we cannot ensure the privacy or security of services provided by third-party providers, we do our best to use contractual agreements and other mechanisms to help ensure that these service providers or contractors treat your information consistent with, and in a manner no less protective than, the principles of this policy.

For legal reasons. On certain rare occasions, we may access, preserve, or disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it is necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. If we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a donor's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system, and the affected donor does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will do our best to fight the request.
Good Morning Mr. President Foundation is committed to notifying you via email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your personal information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only be able to provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to bodily harm that is created or increased by notifying you of the request, and you have provided us with an email address or other current contact information.
Nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.

If the organization is transferred. WIn the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice to you via Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Platform, and a notification on site or similar mailing list, at least thirty (30) calendar days before any personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different donor privacy policy.

To protect you, ourselves, or others. If necessary, we may need to use or share your personal information to: enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use, this Donor Privacy Policy, or any Foundation or user community-based policies; investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions; prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person; protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public; or detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns.


11. How We Protect Your Donor Information

To ensure a high level of security and confidentiality, Good Morning Mr. President Foundation employs a variety of physical, administrative, and technical measures, policies, and procedures to help protect your personal and financial information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, you should be aware that no storage system or data transmission is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that our security protocols will not be compromised.


12. How Long We Keep Your Donor Information

Once we receive personal information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible interval that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation donation process, and our obligations under applicable SA law.

For information on Good Morning Mr. President Foundation 's general data retention policies on the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation s, please see our Data Retention Guidelines.


13. Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Affiliates

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation affiliates (such as chapters) are independent organizations, which sometimes conduct their own fundraising efforts. While some affiliates may give a portion of the funds they raised to the foundation, Good Morning Mr. President Foundation is not involved in processing donations made to these organizations.

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation affiliates have different privacy policies and practices depending on local legal requirements and other considerations. This policy does not explicitly cover donations made to them.


14. Changes to This Donor Privacy Policy

From time to time, it may be necessary to modify this policy in order to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. We reserve the right to do so, and we will provide notice of such changes in a reasonable manner and time. We encourage you to review the most up-to-date version of our Donor Privacy Policy periodically.

Your continued use of Good Morning Mr. President Foundation Fundraising Services after any subsequent version of this Privacy Policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance of that version of the Donor Privacy Policy on your part.


15. Contact Us

Good Morning Mr. President Foundation values what our donors have to say about our services and our policies. If you have questions or suggestions about this policy, or the information collected under the Donor Privacy Policy, we want to hear from you. See our Contact Us page for information on how to reach out. For more information about the privacy practices that govern the Good Morning Mr. President Foundation s, please review our main Privacy Policy.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you also may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country or region.


The Donor Bill of Rights

Adoption, we support the Donor Bill of Rights.

The Donor Bill of Rights was created by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and the Giving Institute: Leading Consultants to Non-Profits. It has been endorsed by numerous organizations.

Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

  1. To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
  2. To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization's governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
  3. To have access to the organization's most recent financial statements.
  4. To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
  5. To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
  6. To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
  7. To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
  8. To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
  9. To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
  10. To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.

Please Note: AFP requires the completion of the Permission Form by those wishing to reprint or reproduce (in whole or in part) the Code of Ethical Standards, and/or the Donor Bill of Rights. The form should be faxed or emailed per instruction, and permission will be granted to qualifying requests. Thank you.